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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY J. HAIGHT, OF NElV YORK, N. Y.

SELF-SIGNALING AND SELF-RECORDING ELECTRO-MAGNETIC THERMOSCOPE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 358,854, dated March 8, 1887.

Application filed May 13, 1885.

T0 at whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY J; HAIGHT, of the city of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Self-Alarm, Self-Signaling, and Self Recording Electro Magnetic Thermoscope; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,'making part of this specifica- The purpose of my invention is to combine with an electromagnetic thermoscope, which indicates the temperature of any given room or place at any required distance therefrom, means for sounding an alarm and for sign-ah ing to the sight, one or both, when either extreme of temperature, pre'established, or any given degree of temperature is reached at the "transmitting room or place, and also for re cording the limits or extremes as well as intermediate degrees of temperature of the said transmitting room or place at the receivingstation for subsequent inspection; and my invention consists, first, in the combination, with the receiving thermoscope or instrument of an electromagnetic thermoscope, of a sound alarm device brought into action thereby when any predetermined limit or degree of temperature has been reached at the transmitting room'or place; second, in the combination, with such receiving-instrument, of a device for sight-signaling actuated thereby when the required limit or limits may have been reached at the transmitting room or place; third, in the combination, with such receiving-instrument, of a self-recordin g device actuated thereby to mark from hour to hour the "ariations of temperature at the transmitting room or place; fourth, in the combination in one apparatus of all of the self-alarm, self-signaling, and self-recording devices as applied to two or any greater number of receiving electromagnetic thermoscopic instruments connected after set forth, auxiliary to the construction or conducive to the proper operation of the several main devices above specified Serial No.1fi5,3l4. (No model.)

In carrying out my present invention I preferably use an electro-magnetie thermoseope, such as set forth in Letters Patent No. 307,543, granted to me November 4, 1884, and I shall represent and describe my present improvements in connection with one or more of the receiving thermoscopes specified in the said Letters Patent. The invention described therein, so far as transmitting to a distance a knowledge of the condition of the temperature at a given place is concerned, is confined to the simple sight-indication of the exact temperature at each special moment or particular time, and the observer must then be present or close at hand, so as to read the indication on the scale of the receiving-instrulnent. Such a thermoscope, however, is ap plicable to many and various uses, for some of which it is only necessary or desirable to thus indicate to the near observer at the moment of observation, while in other cases it may be necessary or desirable to sound an alarm to some one simply in the vicinity or within hearing of the receiving-instrument, whenever a certain limit of heat is reached, either the highest or the lowest desired,for the simple purpose of calling the attention of an attendant near by, but often out of sight of the instrument, and not necessarily requiring him to visit the instrument at all, but merely warning him to give some instructions to others or do some required act under the circumstances, whereas in other cases it may be necessary or preferable to signal to the sight only when such a limit of temperature has been reached, the attendant being supposed to be in sight of or in a proper position to inspect the instrument, it being of less importance in such cases to know immediately that the signal has been made than to know the purport of the signal, whether the highest or the lowest limit has been reached. Again, it may be important or desirable both to have a sound-alarm for instantly calling the attendants attention to the instrument and asight-signal to show what has been signalediwhether a too high or a too low temperature or simpl when a suitable temperature has been reac ied, so that further heating or further cooling, as the case may log r66 pact apparatus.

high or low limit or a given temperature may have been reached than to know subsequently what previous extremes have been reached or what the temperature has been during all of a given period of time, whether variable or constant. Finally, even all of the above-named points of observation or means of observation may be required or desired togetherthat is, sight-indication, sound-alarm, si ghtsi gnalin g, and recording.

For examples of instances of such single and combined uses of the thermoscope as above enumerated, I may mention, first, a manufactory or other building heated by steam,wherein an engineer is constantly stationed. A simple receiving-thermoscope may be placed in the engine or boiler room, such as described in my aforesaid Letters Patent, and be sufficient, since the engineer is supposed to be always present to watch the simple indications of temperature in the room or rooms heated by the steam controlled by him and ready at all times to adapt the fire to the occasion; but, again, the keeper of a hot-house may not only want to know the temperature therein whenever he looks at his receiving-thermoscope, but especially at night may wantto know by sound-alarm, calling immediate and unfailing attention thereto whenever the tempera ture is getting too low or too high. Then, again the engineer of the heating-room in a hospital having many wards or rooms requiring constant vigilance over all would find a series of sight-signals for the receiving-thermoscopes of the several wards or rooms to indicate the limits of required temperature important, while sound-alarms would be of little or no use.

Then, in the ease of an observatory wherein the temperatures of different localities (some at great distances apart) may be indicated by thermoscopictransmission,it is principally important to record from hour to hour the temperatures of the several localities; and in other cases, such as with incubators, and wherever -it may be injurious or fatal to go above or especially below certain limits of temperature, it may be very desirable to continually indicate the current temperature on the thermoscope-scale, to signal the extremelimits to the sight in the day-time, to sound alarm in the night-time when such limits are reached, and to record the temperature at all times for subsequent inspection, to see whether the place has been injuriously affected by too great cold or heat since the previous inspect-ion. Finally, a series of receiving-thermoscopes may be grouped together, indicating temperatures from various places and for various purposes, some requiring one method of observation, some another, some two or more or even all the modes of observation and record, thus conveniently combining or uniting all in one com- -\Thus one purpose of my invention is to arrange in one compact case or frame, in groups or series or individually, electromagnetic receiving-thermoscopes, each having one or more of the capabilities above set forth for all the purposes required in one locality.

Thus, in the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a front view, Fig. 2 a rear view, Fig. 3 a top view, and Fig. 4 a horizontal section, looking upward, in a plane indicated by the line 1 1, Fig. l, of a case containing four receiving electro-magnetic thermoscopes differently supplied as to the devices above enumerated and indicating a suitable means of combining any desired number of such thermoscopes compactly and conveniently.

In these figures are represented four receiving-thermoscopes, A A A A, arranged in a case, B, two being shown as placed upon a lower shelf or support, a, and two 011 an upper shelf or support, b. This arrangement will indicate a proper mode of grouping any greater number of thermoscopes. The thermoscope A is represented as simply an indicating-thermoscope, such as shown in my above-mentioned Letters Patent, having acurrent-tempcrature index, C, highest-temperature index D, and lowest-temperature index E. The thermoscope A is shown as an indicatingthermoscope with a current-temperature index, C, and a self-recording device, G, combined therewith. The thermoscope A is represented as provided with a current-temperaature index, 0, and a sound-alarm device, H, combined therewith, for high and low temperature extremes. The thermoscope A is represented as provided with a current-ten1- perature index, 0, and a sight-signaling device, I, combined therewith, for high and low temperature extremes.

The hell or sounder J J for the sound-alarm device is represented as being placed centrally at the top of the case I5, but may be located in any other part of the case or frame where there is space for it. A single hell or sounder is sufficient for any number or all of the thermoscopes in a case. In the arrangement here shown, however, only one thermoscope is pro vided with a sound-alarm and connected with the hell or sounder, the object of the case and grouping shown being to illustrate all the dif ferent improvements of the present invention united in one arrangement. I show here, also, on the face of each thermoscope spring-clasps c 0, each secured at its upper end to the faceplate, for holding removable and replaceable cards or slips of paper 8, (one being shown on thermoscope A,) on which may be noted any de sired memorandasuch as the room or place containing the transmitting-thermoscope with vwhich that particular receiving thermoscope is electrically connected, or any particular temperature which one may choose to note thereon. Each thermoscope, also, has or may have a knob or bolt, (1, connected with a circuit closer and breaker, K, of the construction shown in Figs. 21 and 22, or otherwise suitably constructed, whereby to connect or disconnect the alarm or signal device at will.

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